Business

Lord Hammond of Runnymede, the former chancellor, is to take on the chairmanship of Railsr, a British-based fintech which was last year rescued from...

MPs have raised concerns over the treatment of small businesses by major banks after figures showed more than 140,000 accounts were shut down by...

The ousted Post Office chairman has insisted it was the company’s current chief executive who was the subject of an internal investigation, not him....

Former sub-postmaster and lead campaigner Alan Bates has called for the Post Office to be sold to the likes of Amazon for £1 as...

Jeremy Hunt has held talks with the boss of Shein, the Chinese-founded fast fashion giant, in a bid to persuade the company to commit...

The investment firm which owns Waterstones has returned with a second offer for Currys, the electrical goods chain, amid investor hopes of a rare...

More than £1bn will be spent on compensating victims of the Post Office’s faulty Horizon IT software, according to a senior civil servant. Only...

The annual rate of shop price inflation has eased to its lowest level for almost two years, according to an industry reading that credits...

The UK will “miss out” on economic growth unless it finally comes up with an industrial strategy to green the economy, the leading business...

A record 93.4% of in-store card transactions up to £100 were made using contactless in 2023, according to data from Barclays. The figures are...

The government has announced it will significantly increase the interim payment given to Post Office workers who have their convictions overturned, from £163,000 to...

Spending on Facebook and Instagram advertising by the two main political parties is more than 10 times higher this year compared to the start...

The UK has seen a “persistent under delivery” of new homes, according to the competition watchdog, which has launched an investigation into eight major...

The prime minister has revealed how some of the money from abandoning the HS2 northern leg will be reallocated. Northern England will get £2.5bn...

A former private secretary to Prince Andrew is playing a key role in the deliberations of a Chinese online retail giant over a possible...

Next has approached administrators to The Body Shop about a potential deal to purchase parts of the stricken cosmetics chain. Sky News has learnt...

The worst airlines for customer satisfaction have been revealed The UK’s flag carrier airline, British Airways, ranked among the worst airlines in the survey....

The energy price cap is to fall by £20 a month, the industry regulator has announced, but households are to face an additional “temporary”...

Paula Vennells, the former chief executive of the Post Office, has had her CBE formally stripped from her by the King for “bringing the...